The Skeeter Daddle Diaries

Why on earth, the man asked, would anyone go to Viet Nam when they could stay home and make real money? This from the same guy who asked the same question about folks who went into public service. No big payoff in civil service, no millionaires in the government. Only a dope would work for peanuts. Only losers and suckers and, well, maybe patriots. Inconceivable to him, almost a kind of mental illness. Philanthropy would be a pathology to the man. Public service a neurosis. We were put here to make money, simple as that. You don’t believe that, you need a straitjacket.

Maybe that’s what people who like this guy think too. All those coal miners and farmers and small businesses. Elect a man who tells them he’s a billionaire real estate developer, a man who would lie and cheat and steal to make even more billions, that’s what we want for our President. A man who thinks soldiers who died in World War One and Two were stupid. Losers. Better to take Daddy’s money and parlay it into a bigger pile than get his butt drafted for Viet Nam, then call John McCain a loser for getting captured by the enemy. You can’t make much money in a Hanoi prison camp.

Take a good look at the crowd at one of his rallies, that sea of people with the red MAGA hats, cheering every angry word that spews out of his mouth. They look like folks who had bone spurs to avoid the draft? They look like they figured out how to make their first million? They think John McCain was a loser for getting captured and tortured and still refused to be released if he cooperated? I’m not sure if they’re deplorables or not but I know this, the guy they plan to elect one more time sure is. Fool them once, shame on him, fool them twice, man, what’s wrong with that picture?

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